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Das vorliegende Buch stellt die erste kritische Edition des Kommentars zu einer frühbyzantinischen Kanonessammlung, der "Synopsis canonum", dar. Der Verfasser des Kommentars war der berühmte byzantinische Rechtsgelehrte des 12. Jahrhunderts Alexios Aristenos (vor 1100 - nach 1166). Die Edition ist mit ausführlichen Prolegomena sowie mit einem Wort-, Namen- und Quellenindex versehen. Das Buch trägt zur rechtshistorischen Byzantinistik bei und wird auch für des Griechischen kundige Kirchenrechtler von Interesse sein

"This is an anthology of private funerary poems in Greek from the archaic period until later antiquity. The vast majority of these poems were inscribed on tombs or grave stelai and served to identify, celebrate and mourn the dead. It is not in fact very difficult to distinguish such 'funerary' poems from other types of inscription, even if there are important overlaps in style and subject between, say, some honorific and some epitaphic verse-inscriptions; what can be much more difficult, however, is to distinguish 'public' from 'private' inscriptions, and indeed to decide what, if anything, is at stake in the distinction and how that distinction changed over time. Our earliest verse epitaphs seem to be 'private', in the sense that, as far as we can tell, they were designed and erected by the family of the deceased. For the fifth century, however, our evidence is predominantly Attic, and, from the first three-quarters of the century in particular, we have very few clearly 'private' such inscriptions, as opposed to those either sponsored or displayed (or both) by public authorities; this was the age of public burials and public commemorations in polyandry or 'multiple tombs', which (quite literally) embodied the spirit of public service demanded of male citizens. 'Private' poems too, of course, reflected the ideology of the city in which they were displayed, and we must not assume that a 'public-private' distinction mapped exactly on to some ancient equivalent of a modern 'official-unofficial' one. 'Private' inscriptions, for example, might need 'public' blessing to be erected in a particularly prominent place or even to use a particular language of praise."--

Preliminary Material /Alan S. Henry -- To the Beginning of the Fourth Century /Alan S. Henry -- The First Half of the Fourth Century /Alan S. Henry -- The Years 349 to 321 /Alan S. Henry -- The Years 321 TO 291 /Alan S. Henry -- To the End of the Third Century /Alan S. Henry -- The Second Century and on to the Conquest of Athens by Sulla (86 B.C.) /Alan S. Henry -- After Sulla /Alan S. Henry -- Epilogue /Alan S. Henry -- The Archon Lists /Alan S. Henry -- Some First Occurrences /Alan S. Henry -- Bibliography /Alan S. Henry -- Index of Epigraphical Texts Cited /Alan S. Henry -- General Index /Alan S. Henry.